Time Warner Cable adds 5 HD channels in Buffalo, NY
By Darren Murph 
posted Sep 19th 2008 10:39AM
posted Sep 19th 2008 10:39AM
We have all ideas that every last HD-lovin' TWC customer in the Buffalo region will agree with this: "It's about time." Time Warner Cable has just announced plans to add five new high-def stations in the Buffalo, New York area in an attempt to reach its goal of "tripling" the current HD lineup. The newbies are CNN HD (721), TBS HD (723), Discovery HD (738), Animal Planet HD (739) and Science HD (737). And yeah, you've had ESPNU HD since late August, so don't complain about a lack of high-definition sports coverage (though, like Third Eye Blind, we would understand). [Disclosure: Engadget is part of the Time Warner family][Thanks, Darryl]
Will these be broadcast over Clear QAM?
Maybe this is why HBO-HD has been crappy today and for the past few weeks the audio on some channels turn off for a few sconds a couple times an hour.
I can't wait to get Dish-HD.
Shameless Plug!! FiosTV went live this week in Buffalo with over 100 hd channels and free Mulitroom DVR for a Year...Just throwing that out there
I have the channels but they're unavailable which is very unusual since they're free HD. Not only that, 5 HD channels that I already had are now unavailable. When I called up TWC to get this fixed, they sent a signal to my cablebox to fix it, and in the process deleted every show off my DVR. Thanks for the warning %#*@$! Now they're sending out a tech today and I guarantee they'll have to switch out the cable box making this a whopping 4 times we've had our Scientific Atlantic 8300 replaced for hardware/software problems.
I live in a town where FiOS isn't available yet an I don't want to lose my signal when it rains or snows with satellite so I'm stuck with TWC indefinately.